Old/New Testament

Remove Sexually Immoral People From Your Church: A Little Leaven Leavens The Lump

5 Sexual-immorality is actually being heard-of among you— and such sexual immorality which is not even among the Gentiles, that someone has^[a] the wife of his father. ² And you are puffed-up, and did not mourn instead, in order that the one having done this deed might be taken out of your midst. ³ For indeed I, being absent in the body but present in the^[b] spirit, have already judged— as-though being present— the one having thus committed this thing. ⁴ In the name of our Lord Jesus, you and my spirit having been gathered-together, with^[c] the power of our Lord Jesus, ⁵ you are to hand-over such a one to Satan for the destruction of his flesh, in order that his spirit may be saved on the day of the Lord. ⁶ Your boast is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump? ⁷ Clean-out the old leaven, in order that you may be a new lump, just as you are unleavened. For indeed, our Passover [Lamb] was sacrificed^[d]— Christ. ⁸ So then let us celebrate-the-feast not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of badness^[e] and evilness, but with the unleavened loaves of purity^[f] and truth.

Do Not Even Associate With So-Called Brothers Who Continue To Disobey God

⁹ I wrote you in the letter^[g] not to associate-with^[h] sexually-immoral ones— ¹⁰ not at-all meaning with the sexually-immoral ones of this world, or with the greedy and swindlers^[i], or with idolaters, because then you would have to go out of the world! ¹¹ But now^[j], I wrote^[k] to you not to associate-with them if anyone being named a brother should be a sexually-immoral one, or a greedy one, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or a swindler— not even to eat with such a one. ¹² For what do I have to do with judging the ones outside? Are you not judging the ones inside? ¹³ But God judges^[l] the ones outside. Remove^[m] the evil one from-among you yourselves.